Best Film in FestivalSyria’s disappeared: the case against Assad (Director: Sara Afshar)
Powerful personal stories of three Syrians with evidence gathered from regime
documentation smuggled out of Syria.

Best Film: Human RightsAs Human As I Am (Director: Alice McDowell)
LGBTI activism and education in Nepal, Malawi and Fiji.

Best Film: Human SecurityThe Truth: Lost at Sea (Director: Rifat Audeh)
The story of the Freedom Flotilla attacked by the Israeli navy in 2010, featuring footage that was broadcast and more that was smuggled off the ships.

Best Film: Human DevelopmentAre you Volleyball? (Director: Mohammad Bakhshi)
A group of Arab speaking asylum seekers arrive to a country border where they speak English - but they can't move on. Interaction gets tense

Best Short FilmStrive (Director: Charlie Watts)
A young Somali settled in the UK tells what it is like to grow up as a Muslim
immigrant in a western country. This film was chosen by the audience at the BFI